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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1336, 13 January 1912, Page 6

At 2.51 p.m. yesterday the fire brigad# was called out to extinguish a gorso firs at Jackson Street, Island Bay. l'he firemen heat out the (lames before any Bori' ous damage had becu done. A new step in llio development of (lit motor omnibus, tho netrol elcctric car of the "Tilling-Stevous typo which hal been introduced by Messrs. Thomas Till' ing and Co.,.was demonstrated on November 20. A number of trial trips wcto made with one of the omnibuses uij and down "ICiiigHway, London. Tho most noticeable feature to (lie passenger, of tho running ot the omnibus was the ai>scnc<3 of tho constant jerking ordinarily caused by the chunking of'gi'iir oil tho petrol car. It is n sign of tho times that motor cycles predominated in the swond International Cyclc'and Motor Cyclc hxlnbition, which opened at Olympia on, Aoycm'kt 20, an<l wliich constituted tlio finest collection of such machines over gathered together. One of tlio greatest rcccnt developments of the motor.cycle is in (no direction of passcngor-rarryitig machines. From a basket-work affair tueso oarrww have now becomo almost elaborate tpccimens of coach work. Dorando Tielri, tlio hero of the great Marathon race, has retired from tlio world of sport, Lady (at railway station, to porter): "Now, porter, «ro you snro I have all ray luggage in the train?" Porter: "Yc«, ma'am." Lady: "Nothing left behind?" Portor: "Nothing, ma'tun; not even a connor. mn'nitt."